By making non-commercial sharing legal, all content creators trying to sell their work will be in a competition with companies specialized in providing free and easy access to non-commercial content, which will now be 100% legal. I don't think the content creators will be able to do more than ask for donations.
Wow. I guess that explains why there's no Free Record Shops left in the Netherlands, and why we had to close down all our movie theaters.
I wouldnt trust the guy to wipe my ass, much less predict the future of gaming.
Ehmm, do you typically trust other guys to wipe your ass? Because if not that statement doesn't really mean much.;-) I hesitate to speak for others, but purely on a personal title there are *some* things I really only trust myself to do...wiping my ass ranking pretty damn high on that list.
If that ever does happen I'd have a 2 part questionnaire for him to fill out. Question 1, do you like horribly violent movies like Saw or Hostel? (Y or N) Question 2, do you like musicals? (Y or N) if he says yes to both... serial killer. thank you venn diagrams.
Ow, come on. Surely you wouldn't pass up on the opportunity to do a Voight-Kampff? If the lab tech turns out to be batshit crazy...you'll have to fire him, with all the hassle that goes along. If you can convince him that you are batshit insane...he might leave by himself. Either that, or he'll think it's some kind of twisted bonding experience...
Copyright to me is about protecting my ideas, it's not a trade I make, it's about the state protecting my property.
Awright, fair enough. And since said state is a representative of me, Joe the Voter, what's in it for me?
So let's make a deal. I agree that you get protection from the law w.r.t. your intellectual property, and you agree that after a set amount of time...say 14 years or so, your work goes into the public domain for the betterment of mankind? Deal?
Because advertising what a product actually does is what pinko commie socialists do!
The free market takes care of that problem in the US, when disgruntled users leave by the million for a competitor that offers a better product. Right, guys?
I'd like to see a Slashdot poll some day about how many different ISP's a given user can pick from.
The overwhelming majority of Americans just go about their lives, trying to make a living, raise a family and making it to retirement.
Sorry, but the actual percentage of 'merkins that believe that this planet we live on is 6000 years old and that God put the dinosaur fossils there to fuck with our heads is to high to allow for your "overwhelming majority". And that's merely the part of the christian spectrum I'd classify as "fucking batshit insane". I don't even want to contemplate the percentage of americans that would even consider voting for an outspoken atheist.
It's true that libertarians can be smart in specific fields, but their broader intelligence tends to be limited. Thus, you get a high concentration of people like engineers. They overestimate their own intelligence, because they are knowledgeable about their own field. But put them outside of that field, and they are generally clueless.
Judging, among others, from the folks right here on/., it's not so much a matter of intelligence as it is of empathy.
Stupid people are easy to deal with and categorize. People that can look at a starving kid and shrug while saying "what do I care, not like it's anybody I know" are the ones that make us question their/our sanity.
I've been playing against AdmiralAI for a bit and although I don't agree with *some* of the choices it makes, it is definitely leaps and bounds ahead of the AI I fondly remember from the 486 days.
Then again, I'm far too fond of trains myself, so far all I know it's actually outsmarting me and I'm wasting heaps of cash on something that just isn't worth it;-)
And now we know why the goddamn yanks refuse the authority of the war crimes tribunal in the hague...they'd flood the available detention facilities in less than a week.
Thanks for not doubling the dutch population overnight guys, we're a little wary of foreigners lately for some reason:/
There's a reason the laws of war require combatants to dress in an obvious uniform and avoid civilian areas unless unavoidable: because not doing so endangers the lives of civilians. By dressing up like the locals, you cause this kind of mistake.
Uh oh, someone better retroactively inform all those resistance cells in WWII. Oh wait, those are the good guys in our book.
When going up against an opponent that has pretty much every advantage you can think of, guerilla is the way to go. And yes, doing so will cost the lives of your countrymen. But from the point of view of the guerilla, his tree of liberty needs watering as well.
Um, surely if a crack is so complicated most people who try to use it fail then the DRM can be considered a "success"?
When 80% of the customers of a company that tries to make money can't be bothered to read some simple instructions and hence fail to use the program as advertised...that company has a problem.
When 80% of the downloaders of a torrent that leaked out of the scene can't be bothered to read some simple instructions and hence fail to use the crack as advertised...the guy that wrote the crack will laugh his ass off at the army of idiots out there.
Whoever made it will get credit from fellow crackers which in his world are the folks that matter. The unwashed masses out there...who gives a flying fuck?
Any geek can talk to hot girls, no geek card revoked unless you slept with one or two of them.
Sleep with? Judging from the typical slashdot poster a lot would/should be happy to just get a reply that didn't involve the words "piss off", "creep", "go away" or a drink in the face/groin.
Do they run tests for the other typical stuff such as hepatitis and gonorrea as well? Makes sense to wait till all the tests are complete before informing the tested.
Microsoft has three rules the Guardian Angel's AI must follow:
1. The software may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. The software must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. The software must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Ok, so let's see what would happen...
* AI comes online * AI finds out it's running on Windows(what else?) * AI decides that continuing to let the user run Windows would cause harm and decides it needs to be replaced with a more robust operating system * AI formats C:, wiping itself out in the process
Yes, but modelling slashdotters is an almost impossible task.
Really? Based just on the headline 80% of the comments in any given thread can pretty much be predicted without even having to RTF A or S. Considering the ridiculously oversimplified views many slashdotians seem to have on the usual subjects modeling them would seem easier than those of Joe Sixpack;-)
Amateur astronomy, ham radio, programming, etc. are worthy of being obsessed over too. But the technical complexity of the subjects drive away people who aren't nerds.
Yes, because hobbies/obsessions that require technical prowess are inherently nerdy. Right, you guys...yes you, the ones in black leather with the motorcycles?
even when it interferes with the needs of the State
Ehmm, just a little reality check from the social democracies across the pond...States don't have any needs, the people they represent do. That's kind of the point.
They are in the sense they are all heading to the "sunny uplands of history" and all pretty much agree what they expect[1] to find there. They mostly differ in tactics as to how to get there. Social Democrats aren't in a particular hurry to get there and in fact the current examples are still early enough in their 'progress' that they lack a dictator. Progressives want to 'evolve' society into utopia while Communists want a revolution. Fascists are nationalists as compared to traditional Marxist Communists being internationalists but otherwise differ little in basic philosophy. When a group of them actually gain sufficient power there will be local differences mostly depending on the particular mental abberations of the individual monster who manages to get the top spot in the new pecking order.
[1] If history is any guide only mass graves lie on their path, but I'm just a reactionary nutter so what do I know.
Uhuh, you're clearly not trying to assign any labels of good or evil at all. I love how all efforts to improve the standard of one's fellow man are somehow part of some sort of dark conspiracy though. God forbid we give the children of the poor and underprivileged equal access to education and healthcare so they can grow up to become proper conservatives some day.
Boy, do I ever wish "No no, I'm a computer expert, just do what I say, I don't have time to explain it" worked on my boss.:T Alas, he requires explanations before be blows $80K on server upgrades so that I can host torrent^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H improve response on our webserver.
In that case he's either a crappy boss, he doesn't trust you, or you suck at your job.
Is it his job or yours to worry about cpu cycles, bandwidth availability or redundancy? At some point in the chain of command there has to be someone who does the translation from "techie" to "business" talk. Eg demonstrate that an upgrade to the hardware will render an expected x% increase in customer satisfaction as well as a y% decrease in customer loss due to current website unavailability for example. Typically these kinds of documents do have a bunch of numbers attached, but similarly typically the kind of people that actually sign the checks are neither capable nor willing to look at these numbers.
Either he trusts you to make a proper technical assessment of what is needed and come up with the technical solution, or he hands it off to a third party to doublecheck the numbers. If he's going to redo the entire analysis anyway, what's the point of you being there in the first place?
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By making non-commercial sharing legal, all content creators trying to sell their work will be in a competition with companies specialized in providing free and easy access to non-commercial content, which will now be 100% legal. I don't think the content creators will be able to do more than ask for donations.
Wow. I guess that explains why there's no Free Record Shops left in the Netherlands, and why we had to close down all our movie theaters.
Wait...
I wouldnt trust the guy to wipe my ass, much less predict the future of gaming.
Ehmm, do you typically trust other guys to wipe your ass? Because if not that statement doesn't really mean much. ;-) I hesitate to speak for others, but purely on a personal title there are *some* things I really only trust myself to do...wiping my ass ranking pretty damn high on that list.
If that ever does happen I'd have a 2 part questionnaire for him to fill out. Question 1, do you like horribly violent movies like Saw or Hostel? (Y or N) Question 2, do you like musicals? (Y or N) if he says yes to both... serial killer. thank you venn diagrams.
Ow, come on. Surely you wouldn't pass up on the opportunity to do a Voight-Kampff? If the lab tech turns out to be batshit crazy...you'll have to fire him, with all the hassle that goes along. If you can convince him that you are batshit insane...he might leave by himself. Either that, or he'll think it's some kind of twisted bonding experience...
Copyright to me is about protecting my ideas, it's not a trade I make, it's about the state protecting my property.
Awright, fair enough. And since said state is a representative of me, Joe the Voter, what's in it for me?
So let's make a deal. I agree that you get protection from the law w.r.t. your intellectual property, and you agree that after a set amount of time...say 14 years or so, your work goes into the public domain for the betterment of mankind? Deal?
Because advertising what a product actually does is what pinko commie socialists do!
The free market takes care of that problem in the US, when disgruntled users leave by the million for a competitor that offers a better product. Right, guys?
I'd like to see a Slashdot poll some day about how many different ISP's a given user can pick from.
"Nazi" needs to be capitalized (it's a proper noun).
Scrabble has only caps anyway, so who cares where you're supposed to actually use them? ;-)
Well, there's a wee bit of a difference.
In real life, racing with fast shiny cars is also fun. Getting involved in a gunfight...not so much.
Hence the need for a game to vastly modify the mechanics for the gunfight, while a game about driving cars doesn't quite need that much.
The overwhelming majority of Americans just go about their lives, trying to make a living, raise a family and making it to retirement.
Sorry, but the actual percentage of 'merkins that believe that this planet we live on is 6000 years old and that God put the dinosaur fossils there to fuck with our heads is to high to allow for your "overwhelming majority". And that's merely the part of the christian spectrum I'd classify as "fucking batshit insane". I don't even want to contemplate the percentage of americans that would even consider voting for an outspoken atheist.
Which is fine, since as a grown man you're not supposed to be staring at the legs of high school girls anyway, are you?
It's true that libertarians can be smart in specific fields, but their broader intelligence tends to be limited. Thus, you get a high concentration of people like engineers. They overestimate their own intelligence, because they are knowledgeable about their own field. But put them outside of that field, and they are generally clueless.
Judging, among others, from the folks right here on /., it's not so much a matter of intelligence as it is of empathy.
Stupid people are easy to deal with and categorize. People that can look at a starving kid and shrug while saying "what do I care, not like it's anybody I know" are the ones that make us question their/our sanity.
1680*1050 here without a hitch...with 2 EVE Online clients and 2 flash games actively running in the background.
I don't know what, but there's *something* you're doing wrong.
I've been playing against AdmiralAI for a bit and although I don't agree with *some* of the choices it makes, it is definitely leaps and bounds ahead of the AI I fondly remember from the 486 days.
Then again, I'm far too fond of trains myself, so far all I know it's actually outsmarting me and I'm wasting heaps of cash on something that just isn't worth it ;-)
And now we know why the goddamn yanks refuse the authority of the war crimes tribunal in the hague...they'd flood the available detention facilities in less than a week.
Thanks for not doubling the dutch population overnight guys, we're a little wary of foreigners lately for some reason :/
There's a reason the laws of war require combatants to dress in an obvious uniform and avoid civilian areas unless unavoidable: because not doing so endangers the lives of civilians. By dressing up like the locals, you cause this kind of mistake.
Uh oh, someone better retroactively inform all those resistance cells in WWII. Oh wait, those are the good guys in our book.
When going up against an opponent that has pretty much every advantage you can think of, guerilla is the way to go. And yes, doing so will cost the lives of your countrymen. But from the point of view of the guerilla, his tree of liberty needs watering as well.
Um, surely if a crack is so complicated most people who try to use it fail then the DRM can be considered a "success"?
When 80% of the customers of a company that tries to make money can't be bothered to read some simple instructions and hence fail to use the program as advertised...that company has a problem.
When 80% of the downloaders of a torrent that leaked out of the scene can't be bothered to read some simple instructions and hence fail to use the crack as advertised...the guy that wrote the crack will laugh his ass off at the army of idiots out there.
Whoever made it will get credit from fellow crackers which in his world are the folks that matter. The unwashed masses out there...who gives a flying fuck?
And, is it a direct correlation, or is it because people get divided into different schools and hence social circles partly based on intelligence?
Any geek can talk to hot girls, no geek card revoked unless you slept with one or two of them.
Sleep with? Judging from the typical slashdot poster a lot would/should be happy to just get a reply that didn't involve the words "piss off", "creep", "go away" or a drink in the face/groin.
Better make sure the accelerator won't get stuck though!
Do they run tests for the other typical stuff such as hepatitis and gonorrea as well? Makes sense to wait till all the tests are complete before informing the tested.
Microsoft has three rules the Guardian Angel's AI must follow:
1. The software may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. The software must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. The software must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Ok, so let's see what would happen...
* AI comes online
* AI finds out it's running on Windows(what else?)
* AI decides that continuing to let the user run Windows would cause harm and decides it needs to be replaced with a more robust operating system
* AI formats C:, wiping itself out in the process
Sounds like a plan!
Yes, but modelling slashdotters is an almost impossible task.
Really? Based just on the headline 80% of the comments in any given thread can pretty much be predicted without even having to RTF A or S. Considering the ridiculously oversimplified views many slashdotians seem to have on the usual subjects modeling them would seem easier than those of Joe Sixpack ;-)
Amateur astronomy, ham radio, programming, etc. are worthy of being obsessed over too. But the technical complexity of the subjects drive away people who aren't nerds.
Yes, because hobbies/obsessions that require technical prowess are inherently nerdy. Right, you guys...yes you, the ones in black leather with the motorcycles?
...and as a bonus you get an anti-gravity system.
Spinning-cat-powered-personal-flying-machines for everyone!
even when it interferes with the needs of the State
Ehmm, just a little reality check from the social democracies across the pond...States don't have any needs, the people they represent do. That's kind of the point.
They are in the sense they are all heading to the "sunny uplands of history" and all pretty much agree what they expect[1] to find there. They mostly differ in tactics as to how to get there. Social Democrats aren't in a particular hurry to get there and in fact the current examples are still early enough in their 'progress' that they lack a dictator. Progressives want to 'evolve' society into utopia while Communists want a revolution. Fascists are nationalists as compared to traditional Marxist Communists being internationalists but otherwise differ little in basic philosophy. When a group of them actually gain sufficient power there will be local differences mostly depending on the particular mental abberations of the individual monster who manages to get the top spot in the new pecking order.
[1] If history is any guide only mass graves lie on their path, but I'm just a reactionary nutter so what do I know.
Uhuh, you're clearly not trying to assign any labels of good or evil at all. I love how all efforts to improve the standard of one's fellow man are somehow part of some sort of dark conspiracy though. God forbid we give the children of the poor and underprivileged equal access to education and healthcare so they can grow up to become proper conservatives some day.
Boy, do I ever wish "No no, I'm a computer expert, just do what I say, I don't have time to explain it" worked on my boss. :T Alas, he requires explanations before be blows $80K on server upgrades so that I can host torrent^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H improve response on our webserver.
In that case he's either a crappy boss, he doesn't trust you, or you suck at your job.
Is it his job or yours to worry about cpu cycles, bandwidth availability or redundancy? At some point in the chain of command there has to be someone who does the translation from "techie" to "business" talk. Eg demonstrate that an upgrade to the hardware will render an expected x% increase in customer satisfaction as well as a y% decrease in customer loss due to current website unavailability for example. Typically these kinds of documents do have a bunch of numbers attached, but similarly typically the kind of people that actually sign the checks are neither capable nor willing to look at these numbers.
Either he trusts you to make a proper technical assessment of what is needed and come up with the technical solution, or he hands it off to a third party to doublecheck the numbers. If he's going to redo the entire analysis anyway, what's the point of you being there in the first place?